EPISODE
SEASON
Inspector Gereon Rath, shell-shocked from his service in World War I, uncovers a dangerous web of intrigue when he investigates an underground porn ring.
6 October 1969
19 October 1965, Berlin, Germany
1988 in Klaipeda, Lithuania
June 9, 1956 in Höntrop, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
November 28, 1962 in Brandenburg an der Havel, German Democratic Republic
April 21, 1982 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany
July 21, 1964 in Berlin, Germany
1994, Vienna, Austria
1959, Berlin, Germany
24 February 1959, Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
30 October 1977, East-Berlin, German Democratic Republic
12 May 1959, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic
February 12, 2018
It's Luhrmann-esque in scale and leaves you longing to join those heady days of swing...It's tense, engaging, and a serious marker that Germany is ready to carve its place in the television landscape.February 12, 2018
The scenes created in the legendary nightclub are nothing short of astonishing. Forget the empty glamour of Luhrmann's ostentatious Gatsby, this is the true grit and unabashed sexuality of the underground.February 12, 2018
Social context aside, the show is elevated even further by truly superb acting, and a narrative flow that assumes that viewers are intelligent enough to follow a story without having to explain every single twist.February 12, 2018
It's all wonderfully gripping, and Bruch has the most pained, expressive eyes you'll see all year.February 12, 2018
Babylon Berlin tells a very good story, yet it's even better at conjuring a rich and fascinating world.November 20, 2017
I sort of love it, but I have no idea where it is all going. Mind you, neither did they.February 01, 2018
Weimar was a famously hectic, louche, and creative period, and Babylon gives it a gorgeous sheen. The characters draw you in as well.February 12, 2018
I'm certainly in - intrigued, involved - just not quite addicted. Perhaps, like Gereon's morphine, it will take more than two phials to get hooked.February 15, 2018
The finale was so crazy and inventive and well-executed (that Rath/Wolter shootout in particular) that I stopped questioning any of it and just went along.February 14, 2018
Babylon Berlin is a self-conscious departure from the kind of history shows German TV cranks out by the dozens every year: Those tend to be drab, self-important, graceless and lacking in nuance.